From an earlier post of Scawens:
Except that's the marketplace, that's not actually priced by Valve. They're $100 because people value them that high, not because Valve is selling them for that expensive. In fact, you can't buy skins. They are only dropped from crates.
Nevermind that CS:GO can be bought most weeks for like $10 because it's consistently on sale.
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Doing some quick research as well, it looks like only recently (< 1 week) has there been sizeable work done to Gallium to support DX9 more thoroughly.
http://cgit.freedesktop.org/mesa/mesa/commit/?id=fdd96578ef2dfe9c4ad5aab5858036298d444a64
http://cgit.freedesktop.org/mesa/mesa/commit/?id=fdd96578ef2dfe9c4ad5aab5858036298d444a64
Damn it. They shouldn't have let their cars commit that armed robbery.
Just look at the latest Farcry.. You can pay ~$1 to get increased HP for a short period of time and a bunch of stuff.
The new LFS version with the updated drawing system along with updated Westhill (which is S2 content) hasn't been released yet.
Well, the screenshots are like 320x240
Good thing I already have a good PC then.
Waiting for the proper next-gen version when it comes out for PC.
Re-read the natural progression of the thread please. Rony brought up that LFS is an incredible value, even for the demo version. Discussing Free to play games is entirely within reasonable scope of the conversation.
I don't feel it's correct at all for LFS. I think that it works for certain game types, and I believe a lot of games exploit the model in a way that is bad for the consumer. DOTA I think gets it the most correct, by offering no in-game advantage to people who pay money.
League of Legends I feel does it incorrectly, by willingly handcuffing a player to play an extremely restrictive set of heroes unless they purchase other heroes, along with offering rune pages, which can be earned through playing time but the points used to purchase those can be boosted to extreme measures with money. This falls into the "pay money to accelerate growth" which I think is the biggest problem that free to play games have. People who have paid any money in League have a large advantage as they can simply play heroes that counter the free ones hard and just get ez wins without any skill.
Clash of Clans and other "pay money to accelerate growth" games are downright cancerous, and are extremely bad for gaming as a whole. They show that maximizing the payments while creating the most minimal amount of gameplay is the correct decision.
Other conversation is relevant to gaming in general, along with the success of free to play games and how demo racers keep asking for more content. Your post was just a classic shitpost.
And Daniel is correct. The drug money has gone to Flame's head.
When one is thirsty, they will see water in the desert.
It's still a free game with no restrictions on the game content. The fact that I've spent money willingly should be a testament to how excellent it is for a free game.
DOTA 2.
1300 games played. Every cent I've spent has been willingly and for cosmetics that I care about, but could have had the same experience by spending $0.
FWIW: Most games (on Steam at least) install that runtime as part of its pre-install process. I don't think it's Microsoft intentionally breaking old games, it's just trying to keep the OS distribution slightly smaller. I think it's a futile effort as Windows already takes 20 GB post-install as it is, so what's another 100 MB.
It's the same as the .NET framework. Windows tends to only come with the latest version (4.0 currently), but if you need 3.0 or even 2.0, you have to install it separately.
"We have largest <x thing relating to minority>".
This sounds a lot like "I can't be homophobic because I have a gay friend".
Also Americans are (in some group) definitely racist. If they weren't, issues regarding violence towards coloured citizens, especially by persons of authority, wouldn't be a big deal. Nor would Anonymous need to launch an attack on the KKK, which exists only to be a racist and hateful group.
This sounds a lot like "I can't be homophobic because I have a gay friend".
Also Americans are (in some group) definitely racist. If they weren't, issues regarding violence towards coloured citizens, especially by persons of authority, wouldn't be a big deal. Nor would Anonymous need to launch an attack on the KKK, which exists only to be a racist and hateful group.
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To be fair, Scawen has been banning people for saying "women belong in the kitchen" for like 6 years now. I got banned by the same thing AGES ago, and it's been made crystal clear in the last few years that any sort of hateful speech will be banned. Satire on the internet doesn't often work unless it's basically prefaced or ended with a "THIS IS SATIRE" (or is on a site like Onion, which people still fall for that as being literal often)
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His statements are kinda funny considering 5 years ago I cared about and watched F1, staying up or waking up at ridiculous hours to watch races. Now, as a young adult with more disposable income than I know what to do with, I couldn't care less about watching F1 because it's simply uninteresting to watch
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That's the sound of the significance of graphics engine updates going right over your head.
Tristan is more qualified to get near an F1 car than Alice Powell. Hell, he could even mould his own **** seat.
I don't think Scawen has done what you've described. All the OR images are from current version of LFS, not the "S3" fork (as I'd presume it's done).
As for your complaint about fence rendering, it's actually a bigger deal than you think. It's the addition of graphics engine features that will allow more complex geometry (instead of poor alpha textres) for various structures, without putting a strain onto the graphics card. What Scawen has done is effectively implement geometry instancing, which was touted as some huge DX10 feature (but supported in DX9).
It might seem small for the uneducated, but for those who do understand graphics engines and the complications that programming can bring, the fences are a pretty nice update to the graphics engine.
Because you don't have a response, as I'm correct. If we're allowing something to be called a sim when it works within very specific parameters, then NFS and even GeneRally are "sims" as they correctly simulate a stationary car without any problems. Further evidence to me being correct is instead of ignoring the post, you needed to insult me demonstrating that you genuinely have no counter argument and instead need to attack my character.
If it ****s up having proper responses to a slipping tyre, how can it say that it has a realistic tyre model. It has a realistic model, it will perform correctly at all slip angles, not correctly within a small small window of parameters.
Again, I wouldn't expect anything other than deceit from lieRacing and nothing put pure denial from the fans who have bought in.
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